Astrophysics

Ocean life surged 500 million years ago due to cooler s...

A fall in sea surface temperatures around 500 million years ago led to the evolu...

Should we be worried about AI's growing energy use?

The expanding use of large AI models demands huge numbers of powerful servers, w...

Chickens made resistant to bird flu with CRISPR gene ed...

Modifying a protein in chicken cells can help the birds resist infection by infl...

Professional goalkeepers perceive the world differently

Psychological tests reveal that goalkeepers are much better than outfield player...

Pickled snake in museum is a new species – but may alre...

A snake kept in a museum in Zimbabwe since 1982 has been assigned to a new speci...

ISS livestream: Watch a live link-up with astronaut And...

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander on the International Space Station, an...

How asteroids can help us understand our place in the c...

With the recent launch of the Psyche mission and the return of samples from the ...

How to see the Draconid meteor shower peak tonight

The Draconid meteor shower is happening between 6 and 10 October, peaking on 9 O...

Largest known solar storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago

By comparing the rings of 140 trees buried in the bank of a French river, resear...

Some of our cells move – and they do it by emitting lot...

A mammalian cell cannot crawl just anywhere – computer simulations based on expe...

Placebos may ease pain by acting on brain systems linke...

Placebos may minimise pain by decreasing activity in systems of the brain that r...

Robots could make farms more biodiverse with precision ...

Autonomous farm machinery may enable farmers to scale up the benefits of plant i...

Online game could deter people from being radicalised i...

Techniques developed to stop people believing conspiracy theories could be adapt...

Countries need to coordinate climate action, says forme...

Smaller groups of countries should be working together to coordinate on policies...

Why trying to photograph a black hole was a massive gamble

Astronomers working on the Event Horizon Telescope project didn't know if their ...

JWST should soon glimpse the very first stars born afte...

The James Webb Space Telescope is looking ever further back in the universe’s hi...

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